Vehicle-axle nut.



No. 665,283. Patented 1an. I, |90.

G. W. TERRY.

VEHICLE AXLE NUT.

(Application led Oct. 1, 1900.3 (No Model.)

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\\\\j n C E ATENT FFICE.

GEORGE W. TERRY, OF PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO ELMERH. STOWELL AND ISAAC E. TERRY, OF SAME PLACE.

VEHICLE-iAxLE NUT.

SPECIFICATION forming joart of Letters Patent N o. 665,283, datedJanuary 1, 1901.

Application filed October l, 1900l Serial No. 31,722. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may corwWi/r over and forced into contact with thewasherl Be it known that I, GEORGE W. TERRY, a C to take up the lostmotion. The locking 55 citizen of the United States, residing at PonpinH is then inserted through the slots c and tiac, in the county ofOakland and State of d and a notch in the inner member register-` 5Michigan, haveinvented certain new and nseing with the slots. Theprojecting pin ends ful Improvements in Vehicle-Axle Nuts, of are thenbent over so as to lie fully within which the following is aspecification, referthe slots in the outer member, as shown. If 6o encebeing had therein to the accompanying after telescoping the members itis found drawings. that the slots in the outer member fail to reg- IoThe invention has reference to axle-nuts ister with a notch in the innermember, the

composed of two telescoping members; and parts may be disengaged and theouter secthe invention consists in the means employed tion turned to aquarter, half, or 'three-quan 65 for securing or locking the members toeach ters of a revolution until a notch is found other. that will alinewith the slots. In practice it I5 The invention further consists in thenovel is found that a half-revolution of the outer arrangement andcombination of the parts, as member is all that is generally requiredfor will be hereinafter described and shown. the adjustment. So to avoidremoving the 7o In the drawings Figure 1 is a vertical cen-` sectionsone from another I form in the outer tral section through anaxle-,spindle and the member slots cand f on opposite sides of the zonut thereon. Fig. 2 lis a side elevation of the edge g, as shown,through which the pin may nut. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line ocx,Fig. be inserted.

l; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the axle What I claim as myinvention is- 75 and nut, the parts of the latter being locked 1. Anaxle-nut comprising an inner memasin use. ber recessed and internallyscrew-threaded 25 In the drawings thus briefly described the andprovided with a polygonal outer surface,

reference-letterAdesignates the axle-spindle, the edges thereof beingslotted transversely having the usual threaded end or nipple B. asdescribed, an outer member corresponding 8o C is the usual washerbearing against the in configuration to the external surface of axle-boxD, and E designates the nut. In the inner member and having slots oropenconstrnction the nut is composed of two teleings formed therein uponopposite sides of scoping sections or members F and G, which one edgethereof, and a transverse lockingare adapted to be locked to each otherby pin having its ends extending' and bent to 85 means ofa locking-pinH, hereinafter referred lie wholly within the'slots in the outer memto.The inner memberGis provided with an ber and the portion intermediatethe ends 35 internally-screw-threaded socket I, which re-` engaging oneof the slots in an edge of the ceives the spindle end and has formedupon inner member, substantially as described. its exterior a polygonalsurface, as shown in 2. An axle-nut comprising two telescoping 9o Fig.3. The edges of the surface described sections having a slidingengagement one formed by the meeting sides of the faces -are with theother and held from independent 4o each provided with a series oftransverse rotary movement, the inner member being slots or grooves,suclras a, and these grooves provided with an internally-screw-threadedare so arranged in the edges that the groove socket adapted to receivethe spindle end 95 in one edge will be slightly to one side of theandmeans for locking the members against groove in the next adjoiningedge, so that a endwise movement comprising a transverse 45 spiral orscrew effect will be obtained by the pin having its ends engaging theouter memnotches. The outer member F is similar in ber and the portionintermediate the ends congnrat-ion to the external surface of theengaging the inner member. Ioo

' inner member and has formed therein upon In testimony whereof I affixmy signature opposite sides of one of its edges b two trans-l inpresence of two witnesses.

5o verse slots c d. GEORGE W. TERRY.

In assembling the parts the inner member Witnesses: is iirst screwedupon the spindle end and the M. B. ODOGHERTY, extensible outer member Fis sleeved there- H. C. SMITH.

